[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5367]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       62. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Association of 
     Pacific Island Legislatures, relative to APIL Resolution No. 
     44-BOD-01, petitioning the United States Congress to provide 
     for a nonvoting Delegate in the House of Representatives to 
     represent the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 
     (CNMI); to the Committee on Resources.
       63. Also, a petition of the Association of Pacific Island 
     Legislatures, relative to APIL Resolution No. 44-BOD-09, 
     encouraging the Guam War Claims Review Commission to report 
     to the U.S. Congress its findings and petitioning the 
     Government of the United States to address reparations to the 
     people of Guam; to the Committee on Resources.
       64. Also, a petition of the Town of Greenburgh, NY, 
     relative to a resolution petitioning the United States 
     Congress to review and pass amendments to those portions of 
     the Patriot Act which restrict or infringe various civil 
     rights and liberties recognized and guaranteed by the 
     Constitution of the United States and to preserve current 
     measures which provide judicial review and require probable 
     cause for the use of warrants, subpoenas, telepohne 
     monitoring devices and all other methods of collecting 
     confidential information about individuals; to the Committee 
     on the Judiciary.
       65. Also, a petition of the Village of Highland Hills, OH, 
     relative to Resolution 2004-18, petitioning the President of 
     the United States and the United States Congress to take 
     emergency actions and enact measures to respond to the 
     adoption of the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2003 
     to amend the Public Health Service Act and Retirement Income 
     Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual 
     health insurance coverage and group health plans provide 
     coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies and 
     lymph node dissections performed for treatment of breast 
     cancer; jointly to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and 
     Education and the Workforce.

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